{"id":102892,"date":"2025-05-22T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=102892"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:40:52","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-45-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-45-part-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 45 (part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, with her fourth special tribute to fallen heroes to commemorate Memorial Day. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a photo of the cenotaph placed at Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts, erected by the Pilgrim John Howland Society in 1958, memorializing the children of Mayflower<\/em> passengers John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland.<\/p>\n

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Photos: back and front views of the cenotaph erected for the Howland children at Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Credit: Walter Perro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I continue my series \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d with a special tribute to fallen heroes to commemorate Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe the living will always be indebted to such a noble dead, and we must pay our debt by preserving those things for which they fought and died, our liberties, our homes, and our nation of liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

–Leland C. Bickford of Nantucket<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much of my research and material for this article came via GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> and Nantucket Historical Association (NHA).<\/p>\n

WWII Fallen Heroes<\/strong><\/p>\n

To recap: My last story covered two brothers, Sidney Fulton Henderson (1921-1944) and Robert Adams Henderson (1925-1942), of Nantucket, Massachusetts, descendants of Mayflower<\/em> passenger George Soule. (See links at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

In addition, I introduced Lt. Harrison \u201cHarry\u201d Ault Gorman of the United States Army Air Forces. He was killed in action while serving as a P-40 fighter pilot. Harrison was in transit from Australia to Java when his transport vessel (USS Edsall<\/em> DD-219) was attacked by Japanese forces and sunk in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

Lt. Harrison is a direct descendant of Mayflower<\/em> passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Lt. Harrison A. Gorman. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Harrison A. Gorman\u2019s Lineage:<\/strong><\/p>\n